Employment

Peter Gold, Principal Consultant at Cornerstone OnDemand, deliberates on the use of chatbots and the ways that they can be beneficial for company reputation when hiring new staff.
The digital age has created a seismic shift in the recruiting industry. No longer are recruiters cold-calling potential applicants or putting job adverts in newspapers…

Flexible working is the future, or at least this is the debated consensus. Below Georgina Hamblin, divorce lawyer and Director at Vardags, discusses her experiences with flexible working, and offers great advice on how to make it work for you.
When I returned from maternity leave it was important to me that I had control over my return to…

By the year 2020 there are going to be several major changes in the workplace, one of these being huge generational shifts.
Five different generations will be working alongside each other; Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z. This of course will carry several challenges as well as several benefits, but how…

Over half of young people would refuse to work for a company that has reported a large gender pay gap, according to new research from Young Enterprise (YE).
The findings are contained in a new report published today entitled ‘The Gender Pay Divide: A Young Person’s Perspective’, which highlights for the first-time young people’s attitudes…

Millennials plan to use robots to avoid human interaction at work, as revealed by research commissioned by ABBYY.
The research, of 1,200 employees in the UK, found that 17% of 18-34 year olds hate speaking to customers, yet only 4% of over 55s felt the same. What’s more, 1 in 10 (10%) of 18-34 year olds would delegate speaking to customers to…

Managers need to be able to notice when someone is being inefficient or if their workload is too much. As a manager, they have a large amount of responsibility. Karen Meager and John McLachlan are the co-founders of Monkey Puzzle Training, and below they offer some insight into pinpointing those that need a leg up.
Managers oversee contracts,…

Research from CABA, the charity that supports the wellbeing of chartered accountants, reveals exactly what Brits really want from their workplace.
Keyword analysis by CABA, reveals that the phrase ‘workplace wellbeing’ is being searched up to 500 times per month by Brits*, but what does it really mean, and how does it impact the workplace?…

It was recently revealed by consumer champion Which? that customers who stick with the same home insurance provider year after year get charged, on average, £75 more than new customers. This disparity, once discovered, often results in disillusioned customers cancelling policies and switching to rival organisations. It also does not bode well for…

Members of staff across all industries are worried to report injuries sustained in the workplace to their employer for fear of making them angry, research from Percy Hughes & Roberts Solicitors has revealed.
Of those who had been involved in an accident 38% did not report it because they were worried their employer would be angry, or they did…

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